689-Botswana Bound(471)
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course with Earth when it was spotted streaking through the co...
22 Apr 20222min
177E-189-Thats 2
Gennadii Borisov has done it again. In a stretch of less than six weeks this talented observer and telescope maker discovered two interesting Earth approaching objects. In this age of big science it i...
19 Apr 20222min
688-Martian Asteroid Hunters(470)
The life of an asteroid hunter on Mars will be interesting and exciting. The double planet, our Earth and Moon, in the Martian night sky will be an unforgettable sight and well worth the trip.
15 Apr 20222min
176E-188-Deep Listen
There is a mind blowing potential for life in the Universe. Humanity's ignorance of any life forms beyond Earth has prompted the Breakthrough Prize Foundation at the Royal Society in London to create...
12 Apr 20222min
687-Returnee(465)
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.
8 Apr 20222min
175E-187-Ganymede's Layers
You can spot Ganymede orbiting the planet Jupiter with any backyard telescope. It is the largest of the four bright moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. In your telescope Ganymede ...
4 Apr 20222min
686-Big Atira(464)
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the Sun so that a large dangerous object does not sneak u...
1 Apr 20222min
174E-186-Breaks Happen
Hunting asteroids by poking around in clear holes between cloud layers can be very tiresome, however, sometimes it has its rewards. A break in the monsoon weather pattern over southern Arizona allowe...
29 Mar 20222min
